Because of the move to a new hosting service, email notifications now work!

Go to your User Control Panel, then click on the Board Preferences tab. On the left sidebar there is a link "Edit notification options". Check all the boxes for the type of notification you want emailed to you.

You must "subscribe" to every topic or forum that interests you in order to get email notification of new topics. You are subscribed automatically to any topic of which you are the original author.

One glitch I'm working on: many email programs will label these notifications as spam. So you must either check your spam folder, or write (as I did on my gmail account) a filter that tells gmail not to mark mail coming from this address as spam.